What Is Educational Multimedia?

13 Aug 2004 (Fri)

MY VISUAL ANSWER TO Dr C.’s question “What is educational multimedia to you?” is as follows:

Mindmap for Educational Multimedia

(Click here to see full-sized mindmap.)

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Understanding Comics

4 Aug 2004 (Wed)

comics (kom’iks) n. plural in form, used with a singular verb. 1. Justaposed pictorial and other images in deliberate sequence, intended to convey information and/or to produce an aesthetic response in the viewer.” — Scott McCloud

Scott McCloud's Understanding Comics bookSTARTED ON TWO interesting and complementary modules this semester (late July to end Oct): Training Methods & Strategies and Multimedia Development I. Thanks to a great idea by new project mate L., i’m now looking forward to working on an old subject dear to my heart with an unusual and fun perspective: a comic one!

Read a very interesting book by Scott McCloud over the last few days. As the overview on the author’s website put it, “A 215-page comic book about comics that explains the inner workings of the medium and examines many aspects of visual communication along the way. Understanding Comics was a Harvey and Eisner winner, was praised in The New York Times, Publishers Weekly and Wired, and is in over 13 languages. A favorite of interface, game and Web designers despite the fact that it doesn’t mention computers once!” Read the rest of this entry »

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